Known as the City of Oaks, Raleigh is minutes from North Carolina's famed Research Triangle Park, whose tenants include Cisco, Ericsson, IBM and Nortel. In less than an hour you can visit 14 major universities. You'll find a thriving business community, active arts and culture population, excellent healthcare, and prime educational and career opportunities. It's a place everyone is content to call home.

The Research Triangle area offers a prosperous business climate with iIndustry giants in pharmaceuticals, computer software and hardware, telecommunications in and around Wake and the five surrounding counties

Our region offers some of the finest museums in the Southeast and enjoys a favorable climate year-round. We are home to two of the nation's top medical teaching and research hospitals, helping families stay healthy. The Triangle also boast one of the most highly educated and diverse workforces in the nation. One-third of our 25-and-older population holds a bachelor's degree or higher.

The Raleigh / Cary and Research Triangle area is consitently voted as one the nation's best places to live, start a business, raise a family, and earn a world-class education.